Copper River by William Kent Krueger

Author:William Kent Krueger [Krueger, William Kent]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Adult
ISBN: 9780743278409
Amazon: B000OVLKQI
Goodreads: 1153502
Publisher: Atria
Published: 2006-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

“Ned, it’s Jewell DuBois.”

“Jewell.” He sounded surprised and pleased. He also sounded distant and fuzzy.

“Are you in your office?” she asked.

“No. I’m at Fry Ahearn’s place. Goats got out again. We’re rounding them up. When I’m out of the office, I forward the calls to my cell. What’s up?”

“Ren and I just came back from Marquette. We went to see Stuart Gullickson at the hospital.”

“How’s he doing?”

“He’s not out of the woods yet.”

“Poor kid.” There was a disturbance, a grunt, the clunk of heavy wood. “Sorry, Jewell. Just putting the gate back in place.” He was breathing hard. “You know, I do an assembly every year at their school, talking to them about safety issues. Skateboarding in the street in the dark. Jesus. I might as well have been talking to the wall.”

“Ned, Ren’s pretty upset about all this. Charlie’s father dead, Charlie gone, Stuart in the hospital from a hit-and-run. Then there’s that girl they pulled from the lake. Have they identified her yet?”

“Yeah, they have.”

“Really? Who is she?”

“I can’t tell you that, Jewell.”

“Would the Marquette sheriff’s people tell me?”

“I doubt it. Last I heard, they were still working on notifying next of kin. Why would you need to know anyway?”

“Just concerned, Ned. Is it somebody I would recognize, or Ren?”

“It’s nobody from around here, I can tell you that much.” He was quiet a moment. Jewell could hear the bleat of goats in the background. “Say, you haven’t heard from Charlie, have you?”

“No,” she replied.

“And you’d tell me if you had?”

“Thanks for your help, Ned.”

She ended the call and turned to the others. “They know who she is.”

Charlie looked relieved. “So I don’t have to talk to them?”

“Not yet, anyway,” Dina said.

“She’s still a material witness,” Cork pointed out.

Dina gave a brief nod. “Before she talks to Olafsson—”

“Olafsson?” Jewell asked.

“The sheriff’s investigator,” Dina clarified. “Before she talks to him, it would be helpful to know how a girl from Providence House ended up in the Copper River. What’s the connection? If they understand that, they’d be more inclined to believe Charlie and less likely to put her in custody.”

“There’s no guarantee,” Cork said.

“We play the odds. What do you say?”

“Let me guess,” Cork said. “You have a strategy for this.”

Dina smiled demurely. “As a matter of fact, I have. How’s that leg?”

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